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# How do you tune a pakhawaj?

 Updated 19 October 2026

 A **[pakhawaj](/instrument/pakhawaj)** is tuned much as a tabla is. A hammer knocks the wooden blocks under the leather braces towards or away from a head for coarse changes in pitch. For fine tuning, the player strikes the woven gajra ring at the edge of the treble head; the gajra is an extension of the head skin, framed by a raised leather border.



 

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